â The Republican National Committee announced Friday that it will sanction at least nine presidential primary debates, starting this August in Ohio and continuing through March 2016, with the potential to add three more. The schedule, obtained first by POLITICO, was rolled out at the RNCâs winter meeting here.
Locus. From Latin: locus - place. Definition: A shape created by the set of points whose position satisfies a given set of rules. Try this In the figure below, the small gray dots represent all the possible points on the plane.
A property that the conic sections share is often presented as the following definition. A conic section is the locus of all points P whose distance to a fixed point F (called the focus of the conic) is a constant multiple (called the eccentricity, e) of the distance from P to a fixed line L (called the directrix of the conic).